Qualification figures show growing gap between sexes
New Zealand Herald
Fri Jul 25 05:00:04 2008
Girls are still outdoing boys in university entrance - and new figures show the gap has widened. Last year, 45 per cent of female school leavers got the qualification, or an equivalent, compared with 33 per cent of the males. Despite...

Named and shamed - the misery some parents inflict
New Zealand Herald
Fri Jul 25 05:00:00 2008
You can call your children what you like - as long as they're not named after Adolf Hitler, the Antichrist or anything likely to embarrass them in the playground. Jack and Ella were last year's most popular names for new babies,...

$1.7m pound for Rodney and North Shore strays
New Zealand Herald
Fri Jul 25 05:00:00 2008
Auckland's northern councils will build a $1.7 million dog pound for the 1000 strays picked up each year. Rodney Mayor Penny Webster said yesterday the joint deal was signed with North Shore City Council for a facility at Silverdale. She...

One in three work over 50 hrs a week
Stuff
Fri Jul 25 05:00:00 2008
More than 150 years after a carpenter in Petone famously insisted on working an eight-hour day, one in three full-time workers are clocking up more than 50 hours a week.